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How Technology Is Not Changing the Future of Higher Education

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We invest in AI, AR, VR and other technologies with the understanding, however, that their development will not solve the pressing issues facing our sector. On their own, new technologies will not drive down costs, increase access or advance the quality of learning.

Via Nik Peachey, Ricard Lloria, THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
Richard Platt's curator insight, March 15, 2022 11:47 PM

We invest in AI, AR, VR, and other technologies with the understanding, or more accurately assumption that these technologies in and of themselves will address the pressing issues and short-falls facing academia, as well as other online learning programs by reducing costs, increasing the access or advancing the quality of learning. Clearly, we, as a society and as organizations need to get better at doing the whole technology deployment and learning thing together, rather than just throw some technology at the wall and hope it works.  Hope as a replacement to strategy is not one.  A whole lot of assumptions by those selling the technology, and hyping what it can do to benefit learners is what I see.  What I do sense is that the folks that sell this technology to academics, companies, organizations and even institutions are not really taking into consideration the needs of students/learners, because if they did, that would have happened at the very beginning of the whole process of deployment of these technologies, and clearly, they have not.  Results are what results are.  This should be rectified by those selling AI, AR, VR, and other technologies to the learning & education community. ( I do have some recommendations, on how to improve this learning and education thing, if you're interested and have a budget let me know) 

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